A Quote by T. S. Eliot

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

T. S. Eliot

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Accident Cloud Design Unknowing

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T. S. Eliot
American - Poet
September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible

Dieter Rams

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

James Lipton

A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

David H. Murdock

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Robert L. Peters

Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

J. C. Ryle

Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.

Winnie Byanyima

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

Chuck Green

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

Bob Proctor

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder

Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).

Norman Potter

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!